[nafex] Van Eseltine crab

["dwalsh/wchase" <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca>]

Does anyone know if Van Eseltine crabapple has fertile pollen .. i.e. can it be
used as a pollenizer?

The flowers are described in Fiala as 'very heavily double' which makes me think
it is not a diploid.

It has been used in hybridizing, but maybe they used it as a female parent?

Can heptaploids or other multiploids have fertile pollen?

Thanks,

Derry

Derry Walsh & Bill Chase  email:wchase@interchange.ubc.ca
Aldergrove,  B. C.,  Canada
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